Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of ...

The curved shape of a zebrafish egg causes unequal cell divisions, creating larger cells near the animal pole and smaller ...

Proper embryonic development of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster is governed by patterns of protein activity bequeathed to the fertilized egg by its mother. While the embryo is still a single ...

Early-onset preeclampsia was associated with increased risk for delayed early-childhood development in the domain of ...

In developmental cell biology, the phrase “pattern formation” is used in reference to the propagation of complex organizations of cell fates in time and space. Pattern formation is mainly controlled ...

Despite often being portrayed as creatures that have remained virtually unchanged for millions of years, a new Harvard study shows crocodiles have repeatedly altered their developmental patterns, ...

Princeton researchers discover that multiple early developmental programs in the fly are governed by different thresholds of Ras/Erk signaling Proper embryonic development of the fruit fly Drosophila ...

The scientific perspective behind cell pattern formation involves observing both the commonly seen principles behind similar cell patterns seen in nature and the visible events of self-organization.